Hacker News with Generative AI: Current Events

Air Traffic Control (computer.rip)
Air traffic control has been in the news lately, on account of my country's declining ability to do it.

Technology, Current Events

264 points by 1317 12 days ago | 115 comments

The crisis of the 21st century is here (noahpinion.blog)
The big news of the last couple of days is that India and Pakistan are at war.

Geopolitics, International Relations, Current Events

4 points by paulpauper 13 days ago | 0 comments

How to Measure an Apocalypse (jonn.substack.com)
This went to paying subscribers back in January but, given the week’s British political news, felt oddly relevant right now. Want to make sure you’re not missing anything? You know what to do:

Politics, Current Events, Analysis

6 points by nickcotter 20 days ago | 0 comments

What Happens When There Are No Deals? – Paul Krugman (paulkrugman.substack.com)
Trump's tariff fantasies are colliding with reality. Now what?

Economics, Trade, Politics, Current Events

47 points by rbanffy 24 days ago | 36 comments

The world needs you to consume less news (danbartlett.co.uk)
It’s considered good and upstanding to stay on top of world affairs. You want to be educated about the world, right? But there is so much to keep up on. So much injustice to counter.

Media Consumption, News, Current Events, Social Responsibility

9 points by danbartlett 35 days ago | 3 comments

America's astonishing act of self-harm (ft.com)
America’s astonishing act of self-harm

Politics, USA, Current Events, Opinion

48 points by mooreds 49 days ago | 24 comments

Lest We Forget the Horrors (mcsweeneys.net)
Early in President Trump’s first term, McSweeney’s editors began to catalog the head-spinning number of misdeeds coming from his administration. We called this list a collection of Trump’s cruelties, collusions, corruptions, and crimes, and it felt urgent to track them, to ensure these horrors—happening almost daily—would not be forgotten. Now that Trump has returned to office, amid civil rights, humanitarian, economic, and constitutional crises, we felt it critical to make an inventory of this new round of horrors.

Politics, Satire, Current Events

19 points by archagon 58 days ago | 2 comments

Current Events (Wikipedia) (wikipedia.org)

Current Events, Wikipedia, News

10 points by rex_lupi 89 days ago | 2 comments

Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed (scientificamerican.com)
No matter what you believe, I’m willing to bet you’ve been feeling a lot of outrage lately.

Psychology, Social Media, News Consumption, Current Events

757 points by headalgorithm 107 days ago | 905 comments

Ask HN: Why are we all pretending everything is normal? (ycombinator.com)
I know we’re supposed to be tech focused but I see no posts regarding the situation at large. No tech, no innovation can really grow or come about if this keeps going. Those of us who have grown up with relative freedom and the room to innovate owe it to those coming up to do something? The system isn’t perfect, but what is happening will make it worse. What can be done?

Politics, Society, Social Commentary, Current Events

32 points by bigmattystyles 111 days ago | 24 comments

Ask HN: Good articles or books to understand the current zeitgeist? (ycombinator.com)
My classical liberal outlook (with maybe a propensity to support higher quality regulations) has been seriously rocked over the past few years culminating of course in the elections last year and the outlooks of elections to come (Trump, FPÖ, AfD, etc.)

Politics, Social Commentary, Current Events, Political Philosophy

11 points by bdhe 121 days ago | 16 comments

Neveragain.tech (neveragain.tech)
The tech industry's silence this time around is deafening.

Tech Industry, Social Commentary, Silence, Current Events

4 points by Kye 121 days ago | 0 comments

US-owned Greenland and Gulf of America? What a weird week (theregister.com)
We all know the US's incoming president, Donald Trump, has gone off-script in a way that is almost comical. Gulf of America? Make Greenland great again? Taking over the Panama Canal?

Politics, US Politics, International Relations, Current Events

23 points by rbanffy 130 days ago | 76 comments

The Players on the Eve of Destruction (noahpinion.blog)
The insanity of war has returned to our world.

Politics, War, Current Events

6 points by ctoth 141 days ago | 0 comments

Cory Doctorow wrote a prescient novella about health insurance and murder (theguardian.com)
Five years ago, the science fiction writer Cory Doctorow published a short story whose plot might seem eerily similar to followers of the past few weeks’ news.

Science Fiction, Healthcare, Social Commentary, Current Events

16 points by ethagnawl 153 days ago | 1 comments

Ask HN: Do you believe we are in a particularly chaotic time period? (ycombinator.com)
Ask HN: Do you believe we are in a particularly chaotic time period?

Ask HN, Current Events, Social Trends

10 points by bloomingkales 163 days ago | 17 comments

Read the JD Vance Dossier (kenklippenstein.com)
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Politics, Journalism, Current Events

14 points by 34679 239 days ago | 0 comments

Britain on the Brink (edwest.co.uk)

Politics, United Kingdom, Current Events

6 points by paulpauper 268 days ago | 0 comments

Will Britain Survive? (2022) (theatlantic.com)